30+ Fun & Hands-On Flower Activities for Kids
We love spring at our house! It’s time to get outside and enjoy the fresh air after a winter of being stuck inside. The sun is shining, birds are singing, and flowers are everywhere. It’s not only a time for fun, but it’s also time to learn. Get out of the house or classroom this year with some fun learning activities. If you can’t get out, these 30+ hands-on flower activities are great because you can bring spring inside to make your kid’s spring learning experience super fun.
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30+ Hands-on Flower Activities for Kids
Flower Art Activities
The natural beauty of flowers makes them the perfect addition to any arts and crafts project! With some flowers and a few extra materials (that you probably already have lying around your house) you can create beautiful artwork with your child. The added bonus of art activities- they are wonderful for promoting creativity, imagination, and for strengthening fine motor skills for kids!
1. Flower Paper Plate Wreath
Flower arranging creativity is at an all time high with this How To Make A Flower Wreath Craft! Kids will love creating their own adorable wreath in this fun flower craft. You won’t believe how easy it is to cut, paste, and assemble this wreath!
2. Toilet Paper Roll Flower Wall Art
Yay! Another way to use toilet paper rolls!
This Toilet Paper Roll Flower Art activity is a great way to use up cardboard tubes of any kind, including paper towel rolls. Just add some paint and a bit of hot glue to create a fun 3D art project.
3. Flower Salt Painting for Kids
Part art, part science, flower salt painting is a great way to get creative, learn about absorption, and just have fun! We have lots of salt painting activities on Life Over C’s and this one is perfect for a spring theme or flower theme.
More Flower Art Activities for Kids
- Egg carton flower painting! This is guaranteed to bring fun to your toddler.
- Make your own flowers with this easy flower craft!
- How to Paint Flowers like Eric Carle the author of “The Tiny Seed”!
- Create your own watercolors with flowers!
- Making Hawaiian Leis will always bring a smile to any kids face!
- Here is a great activity every little girl will love! Make your own Flower Crown!
Flower Theme Math Activities
My kids love to help cut flowers from the garden and then count all of the petals as they pick them off one by one. It’s like their very own outdoor math manipulative! If your children are flower lovers, like mine are, they will go crazy for these flower themed math activities! Just print them out, set them up, and you have low prep flower themed math centers that are ready to go.
1. Flower Number Bond Puzzle
Make your math centers super fun this spring with these Flower Themed Number Bond Puzzles for adding up to 10. We used them in an oatmeal sensory bin for an extra fun treat!
2. Flower Roll and Count Game
Rolling dice and counting has never been so much fun (or as beautiful!) as it is with this Flower Themed Roll and Count Activity. Simply print the activity, grab some flowers, a die, and a marker, and you are ready to go!
3. Customizable Flower Graph
My kids love counting all of the different types of flowers in our garden. So, we brought the fun inside for some graphing practice with this Flower Themed Graphing Set! An added bonus is it doubles as a color learning activity too!
4. Spring Flower Shape Posters and I Spy Game
Who doesn’t love a fun I Spy game? Your kids will love practicing shapes with these fun Spring Flower Theme Posters & I Spy Game. Hide, hunt, and search for all of the different shaped flowers. This makes the perfect indoor activity for a rainy spring day!
More Flower Math Activities
- Counting and flowers come together in this flower math activity!
- Counting with flowers in this spring math game takes math to a beautiful new level!
Flower Theme Literacy Activities
Reading outside surrounded by the beauty of nature and flowers is a wonderful way to celebrate reading and springtime. When it’s time to come inside, get your little learner excited about learning to read with fun flower themed literacy activities!
1. Flower Theme CVC Word Building Activity
Learning to read and write CVC words is super fun with these Spring Flower Themed CVC Word Building Mats. Little readers will love practicing reading, writing, and building CVC words with all of the adorable pictures inside the flowers. Watch your child’s confidence with CVC words blossom like a flower as they use these mats to practice 96 different CVC words!
More Flower Literacy Activities
- Work on learning how to spell your child’s name with this fun flower pot activity!
- Learn the alphabet with this alphabet flower garden!
- Those pesky consonant blends can be fun to learn with this consonant digraph garden!
- This ABC Match with flowers is perfect for preschoolers.
Flower Science Activities
Flowers are often one of the first plants studied by little scientists! After all, what child hasn’t seen, picked, or curiously sniffed a flower before? They are a familiar plant to little learners and they make the perfect model for learning about life cycles, which is one of the first science concepts children are introduced to. These super fun flower science activities take flower exploration and experimentation to the next level! Little flower scientists are sure to love them!
1. Dyeing Flowers Science Experiment
Who doesn’t love a magic show? That’s exactly what your child will get with this fun Easy Color Changing Flowers Science Experiment for Kids. But, instead of the old pulling flowers out of a hat trick, the flowers change color! Kids will love watching the white flowers magically change color and then will be amazed by the scientific explanation that makes the magic happen!
2. Flower Ooblek Science Experiment
Ooey Gooey Ooblek is the star of this DIY STEM Activity! In this How To Make Spring Flower Ooblek for Kids Activity, kids will love mixing and making ooblek and flower creations! Flowers and ooblek make great differing textures for this sensory play activity. Get ready for some squishy ooblek fun!
3. Spring Flowers STEM Investigation
Curious little scientists love investigating the outside world! Spring is the perfect time to embrace the curiosity that comes with being a child and measure and observe some flowers. Grab a ruler, some paper, and some chalk and head outside for this fun Spring Flower STEM Investigation for Preschoolers!
4. Spring Flowers Purple Slime
My kids love slime! It is one of our favorite rainy day science activities. I used to be intimidated by the thought of making slime, but honestly, making slime is so much easier than you ever thought possible. This Easy Recipe for Making Purple Clear Slime with the adorable addition of flowers makes it even better than regular slime!
More Flower Science Activities
- Learn all about flowers with these science activities!
- This Plant Life Cycle folder can be great fun for multiple ages!
- Glowing flowers are sure to amaze you kids!
- Teach your children how to garden with My first garden!
- Make Multi-Colored Roses with these easy directions!
Flower Sensory Activities
Bright colors, sweet scents, smooth and bumpy textures- what more could you want from a sensory experience? Better yet, they all come from one single flower! It doesn’t get much easier than that when it comes to sensory exploration. You don’t need super fancy toys when it comes to sensory exploration and these flower sensory activites are the perfect evidence of that. Easily elevate your sensory flower experiences with this fun sensory bin and exciting scavenger hunt activities!
1. Flower Soup Sensory Bin
Kids love playing chef, and there is no better meal to cook up than some delicious (pretend) soup! My kids love making dirt and mud soup, but sometimes we like to be fancier and have a beautiful flower soup. This Easy Flower Soup Spring Sensory Bin For Kids will bring hours of entertainment and sensory play to your outdoor (or indoor) play kitchen!
2. Flower Scavenger Hunt Booklet
Scavenger hunts are at the top of my kids’ favorite activities list! This adorable Flower Scavenger Hunt Mini Book will have your child practicing their beginning reader skills and hunting for different flowers all over your backyard. With so many different kinds of flowers growing in your backyard no two flower scavenger hunts will ever be the same!
3. Flower I Spy
I Spy games have never been prettier or more full of color than with this Flowers I Spy Activity! Practice counting and identifying different objects and colors with this May Flowers I Spy Activity for Preschoolers. Little garden helpers will love searching for their favorite flowers, insects, and gardening tools in this fun game.
More Flower Sensory Activities
- Make a spring flower sensory bottle!
- Combine fine motor skills and sensory exploration with this fun flower squish bag!
Flower Motor Skills Activities
The natural motions of picking, holding, and arranging flowers are all excellent for working on fine motor skills and for strengthening little hand and finger muscles. Keep practicing those skills with this super fun flower cutting tray or try some color identification and matching practice by using this fun fine motor color matching flower printable. Both are fantastic activities for working on fine motor skills!
1. Flower Cutting Tray for Fine Motor Skills
Whenever I make my own flower bouquets at home, my kids always want to help with the cutting part. Bring the fun of flower arranging into your home for your children with this Scissor Skills Flower Cutting Spring Sensory Bin. The cutting, picking up, arranging, and twisting and turning of flowers are all wonderful for strengthening fine motor skills!
2. Flower Fine Motor Printables
Pom poms are one of my kids’ favorite craft supplies. They are soft, squishy, colorful, and irresistible to touch- just like flowers! Kids will love practicing matching colors and working on their fine motor skills as they create beautiful artwork with these Spring Flower Color Matching Pom Pom Fine Motor Mats!
More Flower Theme Motor Skills Activities
- Your child will love making a bouquet with these fine-motor skill activities!
- Use flower arranging to help your child’s fine-motor skills!
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Oh my goodness, I must have hit the jackpot! I absolutely feel in love with this post from the start. These are such great ideas but what I love the most is that it involves flowers. I work with flowers as a side hobby and have been trying to find ways to involve my little one in my love for all things flowers. And these are just the thing! Thanks so much!!
I’m so glad that you enjoyed it!